'Britain is bending over backwards to facilitate cousin marriage in Muslim communities,' Patrick Christys says

They must "value, diversity and difference", but obviously not enough diversity and difference that someone might want to just mix it up a little bit by marrying someone outside their own family.

But if the nurse needs to speak Urdu, it also implies that the cousin lovers don't speak English, so can't speak English, marry within their own family.

Fantastic levels of integration there, isn't it? But they're not the only ones.

A similar position was advertised at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Slough, a close-relative midwifery and nursing post in Bedfordshire hospitals and GP practices in Bradford.

Look how they chose to warn people about the dangers of having children with a relative.

So they tell us that Ruby and Adam are close relatives, and poor little Sarah has inherited all the bad genes. Gosh.

Well, a study showed that 46 per cent of mothers in the British Pakistani community in a part of Bradford were married to their first or second cousins, whilst less than one per cent of white British people were married to close relatives.

So it's interesting that they've chosen typical British names to articulate the study on close relative marriage there, isn't it?

But anyway, bear in mind that we do have strict laws in this country now are not being able to advertise junk food on public transport.

This Government is looking into banning 16 and 17 year olds from buying non-alcoholic beer, in case they like the taste of it.

We've got a new milkshake tax that's clamped down on milkshakes because sugar is bad for you.

Yet a Government-funded NHS monitoring board has told staff to stop discouraging first cousin marriage.

I mean, this is despite babies that are born to cousins being reportedly, anyway, up to three times more likely to have genetic disorders.

So why is it do you think they were being told we can't discourage this? "Oh, gosh. We can't discourage it."

Oh yeah. Well, almost certainly because people don't want to offend the Pakistani community. They don't want to seem racist.

So instead, the NHS to just employ genetic counsellors to meet the cousin couple and their relatives, to advise them on how to, "consider arranging future marriages outside the family".

Yeah, I mean, or you could just not arrange their marriages with their cousins at all. I mean, you don't have to have an arranged marriage whatsoever, do they really?

According to a YouGov poll, 77 per cent of the British public think cousin marriage should be illegal. Only nine per cent think it should be legal now.

Aisha Ali Khan, who regularly appears on this programme, is actually quoted in the Daily Mail as saying this.

She said: "My parents, Mohammad and Barkat, were first cousins.

Four of their seven children were born with severe disabilities, three have died, one of them my twin brother and I am a carer to my beloved older sister Tahira, who has a mental age of about eight. I also have a genetic medical condition."

For people who say, oh well, the Royal Family married cousins.

Yeah, they grew out of it, didn't they? Or people who say, well, it's common in other cultures. Yeah, we're in Britain now.

I mean, we're already the Western capital for Sharia courts, we don't really need to be the western capital for incest as well, do we?

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